Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The 80/80 Marriage: A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Relationship
Nate Klemp PhD & Kaley Klemp · 2021
🎙 Narrated by Roger Wayne
76/100
👍 Worth It
Nate and Kaley Klemp make a genuinely fresh case here — trading exhausting 50/50 scorekeeping for real generosity, backed by their own messy marriage story and a structural plan for splitting roles and power. It landed on Cosmo's best marriage books list for good reason, though it's a secular mindfulness framework with candid talk about intimacy, so faith-focused listeners should know that going in. Roger Wayne's narration is polished and easy to sit with, well worth the listen.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Candid discussion of marital sex and intimacy as part of a secular mindfulness framework rather than a faith-based one — worth knowing before faith-conscious listeners choose this title.. We still scored it 76; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Narrated by professional audiobook narrator Roger Wayne (Penguin Audio production) rather than the authors.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety70
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing78
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit80
Human-eye read80
Penny’s verdict76
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